As many of us grapple with the weather spare a thought for the crews of our coastal towage and tugboat vessels as they make their way around a very stormy coastline assisting with cargos and vessels from smaller deck barges up to the unique heavy transport barge Terra Marique.

Our larger dredge set up, including backhoe dredger ‘Doreen Dorward’, and our 300m3 capacity self-propelled, split hopper barges 'Nab' and 'Needles’, have recently completed dredging at Haslar Marina in Gosport for Boatfolk Marinas. The dredge rig then relocated over to Newhaven, and are now carrying out a number of dredging operations at Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

We have been hard at work near Portsmouth working with a large international dredging contractor at the Southsea beach replenishment project. This is part of a large-scale coastal defence project which is adding approximately one million tonnes of new shingle to the beach between October 2025 and March 2026